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Out now: We reassemble 700 public plant transcriptomes to mine potential for side chain crosslinked peptides in plants (burpitides). We found multiple phylogenetic hot spots supported by metabolomics. Congrats to Draco, @mikepasquale77, and Brigitte! beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/articles/…

Excited to share our latest work on a new subfamily of VHPOs that modify external AQ molecules and rescue bacterial growth! Jackson Baumgartner drove this interdisciplinary effort with amazing MS imaging support from Catherine McCaughey and Dr Laura Sanchez! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🔓Take a look in our latest issue at this #OpenAccess article by Jonathan Chekan, Roland Kersten & co Chekan Lab kersten lab highlighting the chemistry, biosynthesis & function of plant RiPPs 📍Chem + Biochem UNCG U-M College of Pharmacy pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Out now in ACS Catalysis, we develop a chimeric fusion N-glycosyltransferase for targeted and selective peptide modification, especially in vivo. We use it to make a new glycocin derivative (RiPP NP). Congrats to Smith Ayoola Babalola for leading this work!🎉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Thrilled to have accomplished a major career goal nearly 15 years in the making today! I showed my biochem class the 1971 stanford protein synthesis video. youtube.com/watch?v=u9dhO0…

So excited that Chem + Biochem UNCG has been awarded the 2024 UNCG College of Arts & Sciences Diversity Award. Join us in person or virtually, September 10th at 3:30 EDT, to share ideas about inclusiveness in science. DM me for a link cas.uncg.edu/event/deans-di…

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Congrats to Florian Hubrich & Sanath Kandy for this exciting story finally being published. Thanks for the fruitful collaboration with @chekanlab. If you are interested in the chemical space of #RiPP #biosynthetic #enyzmes and #isoprenoids, click here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Never underestimate a diiron enzyme. Congrats Sanjoy Adak for bringing the nitrile synthase AetD to life with @Drennan_lab, Maria-Eirini Pandelia, and Ken Houk labs. Published today Nature Chemistry nature.com/articles/s4155…

Delighted that a collaboration with Satish Nair is now online Nature Chemical Biology Nucleobases are common in biology but not in peptides. In this work, a nucleobase-peptide hybrid is generated from a ribosomal precursor peptide via YcaO domain protein catalysis. nature.com/articles/s4158…

My amazing department, UNCG Biology, is hiring an Assistant Professor in Genetics/Cell Biology! Since starting UNCG, I've felt incredibly supported and can't speak highly enough of this department! Please retweet and share with colleagues! spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/30224

Calling all Inorganic Chemists. Join our amazing department with a tenure track Assistant Professor position. I love Chem + Biochem UNCG. Great colleagues, remarkable students, low cost of living. Check us out! spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/30223

Come join our awesome team Chem + Biochem UNCG UNCG. We are seeking a new colleague to teach organic chemistry to our absolutely amazing students! Please rt 🙏🧪⚗️🌞

We studied rSAM, HtkB catalyze a His-to-Lys crosslink, and revealed conserved active site residues that influence substrate specificity. Brandon Morinaka Lab | RSC Chem Biol doi.org/10.1039/D4CB00…

When the standard approaches didn't work, Chad came up with a new one to solve a synthetic challenge that Ye Wang was having. Mix in Azam Hussain and the following J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper was the result. Narayan Lab @ UMich Michigan Chemistry UMLifeSciences #biocatalysis

Thrilled to share our work on the new plant Cu enzymes, BpCs! We offer mechanistic insights and structural recommendations for advancing BpC research. Thanks to Dr Jess Pancholi for inviting us to publish in Trends in Chemistry ! 🌿🧬🧪 authors.elsevier.com/a/1jzvn9CpcYaQ…

The #BJOC thematic issue on Young investigators in natural products chemistry, biosynthesis, and enzymology is now complete! 31 contributions from young investigators around the world! Check it out! Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/series/129